By Ace Fekay
Published 2/21/2018

Intro

This is another quick script to enumerate what’s in the dumpster, that I’ve created to help my day to day tasks. I hope you find it helpful.

Scope

This script enumerates an Exchange or Office 365 Dumpster, Purges, and Versions folders.

Note:

Dumpster and Deletions Report provides Size Values for the mailbox
Deleted items’, ‘Recover Deleted Items’ (Dumpster), and ‘Purges’ values.
Does not apply to Mailusers” -ForegroundColor cyan
*** If Lit Hold is present, Recover and Purges will be larger and must be ignored.) ***

The ‘Recoverable Items’ folder contains the following subfolders

Recoverable Items: This is the total amount combined in Deletions, Calendar Logging, Purges, and Versions.
Calendar Logging: For Calendar diagnostic purposes
Deletions: Recover Deleted Items or the ‘Dumpster'”
This subfolder contains all items deleted from the Deleted Items folder.
Versions: If In-Place Hold or Litigation Hold is enabled:
This subfolder contains the original and modified copies of the deleted items.”
Purges: If either Litigation Hold or single item recovery is enabled:”
This subfolder contains all items that are hard deleted.

Script

I did not make this into a function, although it can easily be converted. To run it, for the $RecipientName variable, just enter the username, email address, displayName, or their sAMAccountName, and fire away.

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$RecipientName = “user’s email address, DisplayName, or sAMAccountName”
$RecipientDisplayName = (get-recipient $RecipientName).displayname

Optional (for reporting purposed):

$RecipientNetBIOSName = (get-recipient $RecipientName).name
$RecipientPrimAlias = (get-recipient $RecipientName).PrimarySmtpAddress

“======================================================” -ForegroundColor Cyan
write-host “Dumpster and Deletions Report for ‘$RecipientDisplayName’ ($RecipientName) (Does not apply to Mailusers or Contacts):” “$(get-date)” -ForegroundColor Yellow
     Write-host “======================================================”
Write-host “Dumpster and Deletions Report provides Size Values for the mailbox ‘Deleted items’, ‘Recover Deleted Items’ (Dumpster), and ‘Purges’ values.” -ForegroundColor Cyan
     Write-Host “Does not apply to Mailusers” -ForegroundColor cyan
     Write-Host “*** If Lit Hold is present, Recover and Purges will be larger and must be ignored.) ***” -ForegroundColor Red
     Write-Host “***”
     Write-host “The ‘Recoverable Items’ folder contains the following subfolders:” -ForegroundColor Yellow
     Write-Host ”   Recoverable Items: This is the total amount combined in Deletions, Calendar Logging, Purges, and Versions.”
     Write-Host ”   Calendar Logging: For Calendar diagnostic purposes”
     Write-Host ”   Deletions:         Recover Deleted Items or the ‘Dumpster'”
     Write-host ”                      This subfolder contains all items deleted from the Deleted Items folder. “
     Write-Host ”   Versions:          If In-Place Hold or Litigation Hold is enabled:”
     Write-Host ”                      This subfolder contains the original and modified copies of the deleted items.”
     Write-Host ”   Purges:            If either Litigation Hold or single item recovery is enabled:”
     Write-host ”                      This subfolder contains all items that are hard deleted.”
     Write-host “======================================================” -ForegroundColor Cyan
Get-MailboxFolderStatistics $RecipientName -FolderScope RecoverableItems | ft Name,FolderAndSubfolderSize, @{name=”LitigationHoldEnabled”;expression={(Get-mailbox $RecipientName).LitigationHoldEnabled}} –a
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Report Output

(Watch the word-wrap):

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Dumpster and Deletions Report for ‘User DisplayName’ (SAP Legal Operations) (Does not apply to Mailusers): 03/27/2018 11:22:01
=================================================================================================
Dumpster and Deletions Report provides Size Values for the mailbox ‘Deleted items’, ‘Recover Deleted Items’ (Dumpster), and ‘Purges’ values.
Does not apply to Mailusers
*** If Lit Hold is present, Recover and Purges will be larger and must be ignored.) ***
***
The ‘Recoverable Items’ folder contains the following subfolders:
    Recoverable Items: This is the total amount combined in Deletions, Calendar Logging, Purges, and Versions.
    Calendar Logging: For Calendar diagnostic purposes
    Deletions:         Recover Deleted Items or the ‘Dumpster’
                       This subfolder contains all items deleted from the Deleted Items folder.
    Versions:          If In-Place Hold or Litigation Hold is enabled:
                       This subfolder contains the original and modified copies of the deleted items.
    Purges:            If either Litigation Hold or single item recovery is enabled:
                       This subfolder contains all items that are hard deleted.
=================================================================================================

Name              FolderAndSubfolderSize     LitigationHoldEnabled
—-              ———————-     ———————
Recoverable Items 1.32 MB (1,383,783 bytes)                  False
Calendar Logging 0 B (0 bytes)                              False
Deletions         1.196 MB (1,253,945 bytes)                 False
Purges            126.8 KB (129,838 bytes)                   False
Versions          0 B (0 bytes)                              False

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Summary

I hope this helps!

Published 3/27/2018

Ace Fekay
MVP, MCT, MCSE 2012, MCITP EA & MCTS Windows 2012|R2, 2008|R2, Exchange 2013|2010EA|2007, MCSE & MCSA 2003/2000, MCSA Messaging 2003
Microsoft Certified Trainer
Microsoft MVP – Mobility

As many know, I work with Active Directory, Exchange server, and Office 365 engineer/architect, and an MVP in Active Directory and Identity Management, and I’m an MCT as well. I try to strive to perform my job with the best of my ability and efficiency, even when presented with a challenge, and then help others with my findings in case a similar issue arises to help ease their jobs. Share the knowledge, is what I’ve always learned.

I’ve found there are many qualified and very informative websites that provide how-to blogs, and I’m glad they exists and give due credit to the pros that put them together. In some cases when I must research an issue, I just needed something or specific that I couldn’t find or had to piece together from more than one site, such as a simple one-liner or a simple multiline script to perform day to day stuff.

I hope you’ve found this blog post helpful, along with my future scripts blog posts, especially with AD, Exchange, and Office 365.